The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...” — Socrates Copy Share Image
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostility; and this is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image